Sharpening (again )

[Kittyhawk]

My dog is a nonshedding breed so has to be mowed quite often which is hard on clipper blades.
The recommendation is to sharpen, finishing on an '8000 water stone' or emery paper equivalent. The problem is that I don't know what grit emery paper equates to an '8000' stone. Ive had a look online and opinions vary from 800 to 2000 grit which is not very helpful. Any advice please?

 

[Fitzroy]

I'd always thought/assumed that the number on stone equated to the sand paper grit, so an 8000 stone is the same as 8000 grit wet and dry?

Fitz.

 

[--Tom--]

Here’s a link to the grand unified grit chart


If you look at 3m lapping films you’ll find something fine enough

 

[Eshmiel]

There's various conversion charts that show equivalences over different schemas for describing grit size in sandpapers and other abrasives. Here's two:

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/tools/grit-charts

https://www.finewoodworking.com/membership/pdf/8654/011176117.pdf

A mention of waterstones always gets me excited. I like to warn all and everyone away from the messy, expensive and tedious-to-use things. Emery paper on a flat glass sheet is far easier and cheaper. Don't buy emery papers, though - they don't last long and are these days only worth using if you have a stock from the olden days, as I have (my father-in-law used it to polish his hobby-jewellery items). 3M papers are possibly the best modern versions of such things although the blue Hermes are quite good too.

 

[Jacob]

My dog is a nonshedding breed so has to be mowed quite often which is hard on clipper blades.
The recommendation is to sharpen, finishing on an '8000 water stone' or emery paper equivalent. The problem is that I don't know what grit emery paper equates to an '8000' stone. Ive had a look online and opinions vary from 800 to 2000 grit which is not very helpful. Any advice please?

What sort of clippers? My wife pays a fortune to have our dog trimmed, I could do it myself when she's not looking..

 

[Jacob]

There's various conversion charts that show equivalences over different schemas for describing grit size in sandpapers and other abrasives. Here's two:

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/tools/grit-charts

https://www.finewoodworking.com/membership/pdf/8654/011176117.pdf

A mention of waterstones always gets me excited. I like to warn all and everyone away from the messy, expensive and tedious-to-use things. Emery paper on a flat glass sheet is far easier and cheaper. Don't buy emery papers, though - they don't last long and are these days only worth using if you have a stock from the olden days, as I have (my father-in-law used it to polish his hobby-jewellery items). 3M papers are possibly the best modern versions of such things although the blue Hermes are quite good too.

Even easier is an oil stone. I'd recommend the Norton IB8. Grits are medium and coarse.